Sentences with phrase «dem shadow secretary»

Adam Smith, chief of staff to shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport Jeremy Hunt, agrees that the political selling point is going to hit problems with privacy and security.

He wrote: «This from the shadow secretary of state for Wales?

Since 2010 she has been shadow secretary for environment, food and rural affairs, transport, and more recently international development.

Six weeks later, after being asked every week to do so by Maria Eagle when she met him at shadow cabinet meetings (I wasn't a member of the shadow cabinet, only the shadow secretaries of state sit in that meeting), Jeremy finally phoned me.

Under Ed Miliband he was shadow secretary for education and shadow secretary of state for health.

Since the 2010 election, he has been shadow secretary for both health and education.

The peccadilloes of the ruling classes have long been of fascination and as shadow secretary for media culture and sport, Chris Bryant, has written, sex scandals of all sorts — including adultery, homosexuality (when illegal) and murder — have gone hand - in - hand with political power for centuries.

[325] The SNP has also criticised Rachel Reeves, Labour's shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, for saying [326] a future UK Labour government would be even tougher on benefits than the Cameron ministry.

The shadow secretary of state for business, energy & industrial strategy - a title he says took him weeks to remember - also has a back story.

The shadow Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain called on the legal authorities to conduct a «full and proper public investigation» and then claimed the police investigation had been «tardy».

When then leader William Hague departed, his successor Iain Duncan Smith appointed May as shadow Secretary of State for transport.

«When the previous Government consulted on this matter, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), who was then the shadow Secretary of State for Justice and is now the Attorney - General, described the prospect of giving prisoners the vote as «ludicrous».

Seen as a rising star, she was until recently shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change in Corbyn's shadow cabinet.

Ed is running in the Labour leadership contest, and is shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change.

Mr Herbert, previously the shadow secretary for justice, fills the void left by Mr Ainsworth's departure with expectation on him to start debate and put forward the Conservative plans.

Became a shadow spokesman on Trade and Industry in 1985, shadow chief secretary in 1987, shadow secretary of state for trade and industry in 1989 and shadow chancellor in 1992.

However, the Tory leader's colleague, shadow secretary of state for children, schools and families Michael Gove, tacitly suggested there might be room for negotiation between with the Lib Dems, on education at least.

I have to say, I never expected to be shadow secretary of state for anything.»

«Since fees were introduced, the evidence has shown that although there has been widening participation, students from some backgrounds are not attending the best universities, as I said to the shadow Secretary of State.

[11] In July 2012, after two years as an MP, he was promoted to the Shadow Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as Parliamentary Private Secretary to shadow Secretary of State Mary Creagh [12] Following a reshuffle in October 2013, Evans joined Labour's Shadow Treasury Team as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Leslie.

Sadiq Khan was a former radical human rights lawyer and doing a good job as shadow secretary for justice when he also became shadow minister for London, and responsible for running the general election campaign in London.

John Healey is the shadow secretary of state for health and the Labour MP for Wentworth and Dearne — next time Jim Murphy takes the hot seat

Labour's shadow secretary of state for housing, John Healey MP, said: «The Prime Minister should be embarrassed to be fronting up these feeble measures first announced a year ago.

Cheryl Gillian, shadow secretary of state for Wales, said prisons in England and Wales are overcrowded, while rehabilitation has been compromised by funding cutbacks.

Kerry McCarthy, the Labour MP for Bristol East, has been appointed shadow secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by Jeremy Corbyn.

BASC statement on the appointment of Kerry McCarthy as shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Liam Fox, shadow secretary of state for defence, reaffirmed his commitment to mental health as a welfare priority and announced a post-traumatic stress treatment programme and a mental health screening for all service leavers.

Eric Pickles, communities shadow secretary, said: «I fear that the Trojan Horse of the Lee Valley authority could be used as cover for yet another stealth rise in council tax by Labour.

«At the moment this a concept of neither meaning nor effect for the millions of people languishing in terror in Darfur,» said Andrew Mitchell, shadow secretary of state for international development.

Labour's shadow Secretary of State for the Environment spoke of the importance of high standards in shooting

It is a unique privilege to serve on our Party's frontbench, both in Opposition and in Government, and I thank you for appointing me last September as shadow secretary of state for housing and planning.

«Dear Jeremy, It has been a privilege to serve as shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under your leadership.

Work and Pensions shadow secretary Rachel Reeves went as far as to say she has had conversations with German, French and Irish officials who seemed to be supportive of Labour's migration plans, forgetting that the governments in Tallinn or Warsaw may have a very different view on the matter.

Barry Gardiner, shadow secretary of state for international trade, said people were «innocent until proven guilty».

But Jeremy Hunt, the shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has kept his cards close to his chest so far on broadcasting — apart from some conventional pieties about the importance of public service broadcasting and the need to keep Channel 4 going through some funding fudge.

I also believe we should have shadow secretaries for the Army, Navy and Air Force, all of whom will have served in the respective arm of the military.

Before 1997, Tony Blair ostensibly promoted Robin Cook from shadow secretary for state for trade and industry to shadow foreign secretary in a bid to sideline him from shaping economic policy.

Not the words of anyone on this side of the House, but the words of the shadow secretary of state [Liam Byrne, in his speech to the Labour conference in 2011].

Margaret Curran had held Glasgow East since 2010 and was the shadow Secretary of State for Scotland.

Owen Smith, who backed Ed Miliband in the leadership election, has been moved from the Treasury team to act as shadow secretary of state for Wales.

Mr Murphy was shadow secretary of sate for defence, previously serving as secretary of state for Scotland.

Stephen Benn's younger brother Hilary is the shadow secretary of state for communities and local government.

Margaret Curran MP, shadow secretary for Scotland, and Scottish deputy leader Anas Sarwar MP, joined the NEC to review the referendum campaign and the landscape following the decisive No vote.

He won the seat at the 2001 general election and, after a short stint as shadow secretary for education, was party leader within four years, beating David Davis, Liam Fox and Kenneth Clarke to the top job.

She has yet to ask a single written question after six months of being a shadow secretary of state.

Liam Byrne is said to be particularly aggrieved — sources familiar with his thinking say that in over two years as shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, the number of times he was able to sit down with the leader and discuss the issues around welfare, can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

A key lieutenant of David Davis in his leadership bid, Mitchell was appointed shadow secretary of state for international development after the election (more information at They work for you)

David Willetts, shadow secretary for innovation, universities and skills: # 135.12 for changing lightbulbs

Now Chuka Umunna is shadow secretary of state to this department and consciously echoed Mandelson when he recently said: «I don't have a problem with people making a lot of money, so long as they pay their taxes.»

They suggest a similar experience to Liam Byrne's, where attempts to have substantive dialogue with Ed Miliband about the detail of policy have been evaded while the shadow secretary's policy proposals have been run into the sand by the leader's office.